coont
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Scots
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English counten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conter, from Old French conter (“add up; tell a story”), from Latin computō (“I compute”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]coont (third-person singular simple present coonts, present participle coontin, simple past coontt, past participle coontt)
- to count, to do arithmetic
- to settle (accounts) [with to or with ‘to have a yearly settlement with the landlord’]
Noun
[edit]coont (plural coonts)
- a sum in arithmetic
- account
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References
[edit]- “coont”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
- Eagle, Andy, editor (2024), “coont”, in The Online Scots Dictionary[1]